Catalog Raisonné

MICHAEL C. GADLIN
c o n t e m p o r a r y v i s i o n

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Catalog Raisonné

MICHAEL C. GADLIN
c o n t e m p o r a r y v i s i o n

Making art. Seeking truth. It's the artist's path to shaping their identity. That path which we surrender and chase involuntarily. It is this vision that consumes the artist to transform and express the nature of existence. Hoping the work will become our legacy, if not but a surrogate to the reality of a future of nonexistence. Creating is the eternal vision and the motivation that seeks a truth and a beauty that is yet to come. The act of making is nothing more than a covering over despair and a hope for eternality.

Figures of Expression

Figures of ExpressionAn abstract language of the figure.

Figures of Expression

Figures of ExpressionAn abstract language of the figure.

Figures of Expression

Through the years, I began to realize we are all on a search to the core of the work we create. Not only to make the work itself as a sense of accomplishment, but to find a deeper purpose in ourselves. The essence of life reflects what we seek. With that realization; "The most honest examination of one's work is truly determined by the sum of two things, that which you do not yet know and that which you practice."

Figures & Fragments

"I've always been drawn to line as a fragment of shapes."

The Temptation Of A Figure In A Landscape

Primitive Nature

Refugees Welcome

The Essence of a Refugee

Refugees Welcome

The Essence of a Refugee

Essence of A Refugee

The Hope For Zenith...

As you are well aware, the contemporary Refugees' plight is a global epidemic reaching the nadir of their sufferings. Yet with the loss of their home country, there still lay a hope for Zenith, a stoic coup d'œil.

My figures are fictive and intend to be ubiquitous as a universal family. Bringing an emotional intimacy that carries weight to achieve an essence of an instinctive nature that is truly a pneuma, my own visual language that is in-the-moment and intuitive.

Balance (refugee #55621, #55216 and #55126)

The 12welve

The 12welve

The 12welve

The 12welve

The 12welve

A contemporary interpretation of the Apostles

Elements of Nature

Elements of Nature

Elements of Nature

Elements of Nature

Elements of Nature

The elements of nature's abstractions...

"Building a surface comprised of fluid and sensual raw marks, layered expressively throughout. Seemingly scrawled directly onto the surface with no inhibitions to speak of. Drawing the viewer into the leftover shapes, that are strategically placed to play with your senses, between sensuality and reason."